Penguins: Non-fiction Unit for 1st and 2nd Grade - All About Penguins

This 83-page Penguin unit is LOADED with resources for studying penguins! Penguin Photo Display posters, a Fact Resource booklet, a poem chart, Vocabulary chart, Penguin-themed practice sheets, an Interactive Booklet, writing paper, art products, Home-School connection “newsletters” are included with the Singable & Mini-movie. The song is easily sung to the tune “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". Three Beginning Readers (in Color & B/W) and MORE are included!

This product features a Mini-movie of this Singable! The ZIP folder includes an M4V file designed to be shown on a computer and/or large screen. This is an engaging (and easy) way to teach the singable to your class. The mini-movie includes the pages of the “book” AND our voices singing the song!

In order to play the mini-movie, Quicktime Player is needed or another program that converts a mov/M4V file.

Some Common Core Connections include:

*RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding

*RF.K.1a Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

*RI.K.4 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

*W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

The ZIP file contains:

*Mini-movie (see above)

♬Shared Reading Singable Book: pages 1-13

*Poem Chart: page 14

*Beginning Reader: pages 15-21 (Color photo version)

*Beginning Reader: pages 22-28 (Colored clip art version)

*Beginning Reader: pages 29-35 (B/W clip art version)

*Let’s Learn About Penguins: Fact Book: pages 36-41

*Interactive Take-home Booklet: pages 42-49

*Penguin Fact Charts: pages 51-52

*Art project/Writing: page 53-54

*Flip-flap Facts page: page 55-57

*Penguin-themed Writing papers: pages 58-59, 66-69

*Scrambled Penguin Sentences: pages 60-61

*Venn Diagram: page 64

*Graphic Organizer: page 65

*Parent Letter: page 72

*Home-School Connection Activity papers: pages 73-76 (Color & B/W)

*Photo Display cards: pages 78-82

*Storage Label & Directions: page 84

Complete Directions

Enjoy our product! Jackie & Kylene

Be among the first to know about our freebies, sales, and new product launches. New products are 50% for the first two days!

•Become a store follower.Click HERE. You will now receive customized e-mail updates about this store. Thank you so much for your interest. ☺

Here are some other products you might like:

C-V-C Word Building Penguin Time

Sight Word Game: Tricky Penguins

Peculiar Penguins Non-fiction Unit

1-2, Penguins For You

Emperor Penguins Non-fiction Singable

Here is a link to ALL our January & Winter products

Winter Products

Here is a link to ALL our Penguin products

Penguin Products